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Ontario Centres of Excellence is proud to have worked
with and supported this year’s award-winning companies
360pi (formerly Gazaro)
• 2011 Finalist for New Business
of the Year, Ottawa Business
Achievement Awards
• 2011 Invest Ottawa
Entrepreneurship Week
Rising Star
• 2011 Branham300: Top 25 Up
and Coming ICT Companies
• 2011 TiE50 Awards, Finalist
(TiE Silicon Valley)
• 2012 Red Herring 100 North
America Finalist
• 2012 Carleton University
Co-op Employer of the Year
Aeryon Labs Inc.
• 2011 Kitchener-Waterloo
Record Top 40 Under 40,
David Kroetsch and Michael
Peasgood
• 2011 Canadian Manufacturers
& Exporters Regional Awards
for New Technology, Ontario
winner
• 2011 Ontario Centres of
Excellence Mind to Market
Award
• 2011 Association of Public-
Safety Communications
Officials (APCO) International
25 Hot Products Award
• 2011 Ernst & Young
Entrepreneur of the Year
Finalist, David Kroetsch;
Emerging Entrepreneur,
Michael Peasgood
ATS Automation Tooling
Systems Inc.
• 2011 Corporate Knights
Cleantech Next 10
Avenir Medical
• 2011 Visa Canada’s Gobiz
Elevator Pitch Competition,
Finalist
• 2011 TiEQuest Competition
Finalist
Benbria
• 2011 Golden Bridge Award,
“Best New Products and
Services” category
• 2011 Ernst & Young
Entrepreneur of the Year,
Young Entrepreneur Finalist,
Mason Du
• 2012 Ottawa Business Journal
and Ottawa Chamber of
Commerce Top 40 Under 40,
Mason Du
BTI Systems Inc.
• 2011 OCRI Product of the
Year Award
• 2011 PROFIT 200 Fastest
Growing Companies (ranked 78)
BufferBox Inc.
• 2011 Queen’s Entrepreneurs’
Competition Innovation
Award Winner
• 2011 Mechatronics Engineering
Design Symposium (University
of Waterloo), Best Overall
Design
• 2011 Waterloo Nicol Award
Competition, 1st place
Carbon Control Systems Inc.
• 2012 County of Peterborough
Environmental Recognition
Award
Clearpath Robotics Inc.
• 2011 TiEQuest Awards,
2nd place
• 2011 TieQuest New
Entrepreneur Award
• 2011 CBET RISE Business
Plan Competition, 1st place
EION Wireless Inc.
• 2011 Mobility Tech Zone
Wireless Backhaul Distinction
Award
• 2011 4GWE Wireless LTE
Visionary Award
• 2011 Communications
Solutions Product of the
Year Award
Electrovaya Inc.
• 2011 Ernst & Young
Entrepreneur of the Year
Finalist, Dr. Sankar DasGupta,
Technology
Eve Medical
• 2011 Ontario Centres of
Excellence Martin Walmsley
Fellowship
• 2011 Up-Start! Competition
Winner
Desire2Learn Incorporated
• 2011 Deloitte Canadian
Technology Fast 50 List
Leadership award
• 2011 Gold Level NFB-NVA
Certification, National
Federation of the Blind (NFB)
• 2011 Microsoft Worldwide
Education Partner of the Year
• 2011 Top 50 Best Small &
Medium Employers in Canada
• 2011&2012 Microsoft U.S.
Public Sector Partner of the
Year Award
• 2012 International Platinum
MarCom Award
• 2012 Canada’s Top 100
Employers for Young People
DragonWave Inc.
• 2011 CATA CIO Leadership
Award, Erik Boch
• 2011 Ottawa Business
Journal and Ottawa Chamber
of Commerce Top 40 under
40, Greg Friesen, VP Product
Management
• 2012 Branham300, Top 10
Canadian wireless solutions
companies (ranked 4)
EidoSearch
• 2012 Winner, Backbone/Alpha
Exchange Innovation Campaign
Contest
Flybits
• 2012 MIT's Technology Review
World's Top 35 Innovators
under 35, Dr. Hossein Rahnama
Forming Technologies Inc.
• 2012 Canadian Innovation
Awards: Intel SME Innovation
Award
Giatec Scientific Inc.
• 2011 University of Ottawa
Polanyi Prize Nominee in
Chemistry
• 2011 OCRI Student
Entrepreneur of the Year Award,
president, Pouria Ghods
• 2011 OCRI Student Researcher
of the Year Award, CEO, Aali
Alizadeh
• 2012 Bootstrap Award for
Innovation in Engineering and
Technology, Bronze Medal
Gridcentric Inc.
• 2012 University of Toronto
Inventor of the year award
(Gridcentric founding team)
gShift Labs Inc.
• 2011 Branham300: Top 25 Up
and Coming ICT Companies
• 2011 Canadian Technology
Accelerator Winner (Canadian
Innovation Exchange)
Impakt Protective
• 2012 Explorium Entrepreneur
Network Innovation in
Engineering and Technology
Award
• 2012 Ottawa Business Journal
and Ottawa Chamber of
Commerce Top 40 Under 40,
Danny Crossman
Kela Medical Inc.
• 2011 PROFIT Magazine FuEL
Awards, Top 20 Under 30
honouree, Arjun Kumar
Kim Geomatics
• Canadian Remote Sensing
Society’s Gold Medal, Bob
Ryerson
Komodo OpenLab Inc.
• 2012 TiEQuest TiE Institute
Participant
Miovision Technologies Inc.
• 2011 Corporate Knights
Cleantech Next 10
• 2012 Peter Brojde Award for
Canada’s Next Generation of
Executive Leadership, Kurtis
McBride
• 2012 Ontario Business
Achievement Awards Finalist
ModiFace Inc.
• 2012 PROFIT Magazine’s
HOT 50 (ranked 40)
Morgan Solar Inc.
• 2011 Corporate Knights
Cleantech Next 10
• 2011 Corporate Knights Clean
Capitalism Clean16 R&D
Award Winner
MyVoice Inc.
• 2011 Ontario Centres of
Excellence Martin Walmsley
Fellowship
• 2011 PROFIT Magazine’s FuEL
Awards: Entrepreneur of the
Year, Alex Levy
• 2012 Autism App of Distinction
from Wynsum Arts
NexJ Systems Inc.
• 2011 Deloitte Canadian
Technology Fast 50 list
(ranked 4)
• 2011 Computerworld Honours
Laureate
• 2012 PROFIT 200 Canada’s
Fastest Growing Companies,
1st place
• 2012 Branham300 Top 250
Canadian ICT Companies
(ranked 122)
• 2012 Canadian Channel Elite
Awards, Best Cloud Solution
and Best Mobile Solution
Gold Awards
NIMTech Inc
• 2011 TiEQuest Awards,
2nd place
• 2011 TiEQuest Best Clean
Tech Venture Award
• 2011 TiEQuest Best Intellectual
Property Award Joint Winner
Nulogy
• 2011 Up Awards, Top Three
Fastest Growing Companies
• 2011 Acetech Network of Top
CEOs Award, Jason Tham
• 2012 York Technology Alliance
(YTA) Technology Leadership
Award for Scale-Up Company
of the Year
OtoSim Inc.
• 2012 TieQuest Awards,
3rd Place
P&P Optica
• 2012 R&D Magazine, R&D
100 Award Winner
Panacis
• 2011 Deloitte Technology
Fast 50 “Technology
Green 15” Award
• 2011 PROFIT Magazine,
Canada’s 100 Fastest Growing
Companies (ranked 43)
Peraso Technologies Inc.
• 2011 Branham300: Top 25 Up
and Coming ICT Companies
PlantForm Corporation
• 2011 OCE Mind to Market
Award Finalist
• 2012 Venture Forum “Most
Promising Technology”
Polar Mobile Group Inc.
• 2012 Canadian Innovation
Awards Ericsson Award
for Outstanding Product
Achievement (Content and
Application Mobility Industry)
• 2012 Achievers’ 50 Most
Engaged Workplaces in
Canada Award
Purifics ES Inc.
• 2011 Artemis Project Top 50,
Water Tech Winner
Quantum Dental
Technologies Inc.
• 2011 Angel Capital Association
Silvertip Award for Innovation
• 2012 CAP-INO Medal for
Outstanding Achievement
in Applied Photonics,
Dr. Andreas Mandelis
Rna Diagnostics Inc.
• 2011 TiEQuest Awards, Best
Healthcare Industry Award and
Best Intellectual Property Award
Simple Systems Inc.
• 2012 University of Toronto
Connaught Innovation Award
• 2012 TiEQuest Winner
• 2012 TiEQuest Winner,
Best Intellectual Property
Smarter Alloys
(formerly Innovative
Processing Technologies)
• 2011 Ontario Centres of
Excellence Martin Walmsley
Fellowship
• 2011 CleanTech North’s
Innovation Company of the
Year Award
Temporal Power
• 2011 Corporate Knights
Cleantech Next 10
Top Hat Monocle Inc.
• 2012 Branham300, Top 25 Up
and Coming ICT Companies
Trojan Technologies
• 2011 Environmental Protection
Award, New Product of the
Year (Wastewater)
• 2011 International Ultraviolet
Association Lifetime
Achievement Award, Chief
Scientist, Dr. William L. Cairns
• 2011 International Ultraviolet
Association Innovations in UV
Award – Green Award
• 2011 American Water Works
Association (AWWA) ACE11
Green Ribbon Recipient
• 2012 AWWA ACE12 Green
Ribbon Recipient
Vive Nano
• 2011 New York Venture Summit
Best Cleantech Presentation
Xogen Technologies
• 2011 Corporate Knights
Cleantech Next 10
Zephyr Sleep Technologies
• 2011 Pride Institute’s Best
of Class Technology Award,
Honoree in Emerging category
• 2012 TechRev Innovators
Nomination
Zighra
• 2012 Ottawa Business Journal
and Ottawa Chamber of
Commerce Top 40 Under 40,
Deepak Dutt
• 2012 TiE50 Awards Finalist
(TiE Silicon Valley)
• 2012 Backbone/Alpha
Exchange Innovation Campaign
Contest– top 10 finalist
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